4-H SEWING SKILLS LEARNING LIST
Bring this dated list to 4-H Clothing Show and keep in your permanent 4-H records to
add to each year.
Place year (for example – 2009) before skills you learned during the year.
Please Note: This is a record of your sewing skills to be added to each year as you learn
new skills.
Year Skill
Was Learned
GENERAL TECHNIQUES
__________
1. Buying fabric – right type and amount
__________
2. Choosing thread
__________
3. Straightening the grain of a fabric
__________
4. Shrinking fabrics
__________
5. Using a tape measure
__________
6. Using a needle
__________
7. Using a thimble
__________
8. Using a pincushion
__________
9. Using shears
__________ 10. Using a pressing ham
__________ 11. Using a sleeve board
__________ 12. Using the sewing machine
__________ 13. Underpressing
__________ 14. Top Pressing
__________ 15. Making a casing
__________ 16. Making an elastic waistband
__________ 17. Making a faced waistband
__________ 18. Making a waistband with non-roll stiffener
__________ 19. Caring for a garment
__________ 20. Selecting a commercial pattern
__________ 21. Adjusting a commercial pattern
__________ 22. Placing the pattern pieces on the fabric
__________ 23. Laying the pattern on the grain line of the fabric
__________ 24. Laying the pattern on a napped fabric
__________ 25. Laying the pattern on a pile fabric
__________ 26. Laying the pattern on a diagonal
__________ 27. Laying the pattern on a plaid fabric
Year Skill
Was Learned
GENERAL TECHNIQUES
__________ 28. Marking the fabric
__________ 29. Marking the fabric using pins
__________ 30. Marking the fabric using tailor tacks
__________ 31. Making darts
__________ 32. Gathering by hand
__________ 33. Gathering by sewing machine
__________ 34. Making patch pockets
__________ 35. Making lined patch pockets
__________ 36. Making “set-in” pockets
__________ 37. Making pleats – type you made ____________
__________ 38. Making tucks
__________ 39. Shirring
__________ 40. Applying trims
__________ 41. Making bias tape
__________ 42. Making scallops
__________ 43. Appliquéing
FABRIC TYPES
__________ 44. Sewing wovens – cottons, polyesters, etc.
__________ 45. Sewing wovens – wools
__________ 46. Sewing knits
__________ 47. Sewing sheer fabrics
__________ 48. Sewing leather and suede
__________ 49. Sewing deep pile (fake fur)
__________ 50. Sewing plaids
__________ 51. Sewing stripes
__________ 52. Sewing bias fabrics
__________ 53. Sewing ____________ fabrics
STITCHING
__________ 54. Staystitching – where and how
__________ 55. Understitching – where and how
__________ 56. Easestitching – where and how
Year Skill
Was Learned
STITCHING
__________ 57. Topstitching
__________ 58. Machine Basting
__________ 59. Decorative machine Stitching
__________ 60. Machine Padstitching
__________ 61. Pin Basting
__________ 62. Hand Basting
__________ 63. Slipbasting
__________ 64. Hand Stitching – Running Stitch
__________ 65. Hand Stitching – Back Stitch
__________ 66. Hand Stitching – Overcast
__________ 67. Hand Stitching – Pad
__________ 68. Hand Stitching – Slipstitch
__________ 69. Hand Stitching – Blind Hem
__________ 70. Hand Stitching –Catch
__________ 71. Hand Stitching – Whipstitch
__________ 72. Hand Stitching – Halfback
SEAMS
__________ 73. Sewing a straight seam
__________ 74. Fastening threads at the ends of seams
__________ 75. Finishing a seam – plain
__________ 76. Finishing a seam – pinking
__________ 77. Finishing a seam – stitch and pink
__________ 78. Finishing a seam – zigzagging
__________ 79. Finishing a seam – turning under and stitching (clean finish)
__________ 80. Finishing a seam – overcast – hand
__________ 81. Grading a seam
__________ 82. Making a corded or piped seam
__________ 83. Making a welt seam
__________ 84. Making a slot seam
__________ 85. Making a French seam
__________ 86. Making a mock French seam
__________ 87. Making a double or tripled stitched seam
Year Skill
Was Learned
SEAMS
__________ 88. Making a flat-felled seam
__________ 89. Making a top-stitched seam
__________ 90. Making a decorative lapped seam
__________ 91. Using the sewing machine (turned & stitched or clean finished)
__________ 92. Hemming by slip-stitching
__________ 93. Hemming by blind-stitching
__________ 94. Hemming by catch-stitching
__________ 95. Hem by stitching and pinking
__________ 96. Hem by zigzagging
__________ 97. Making a Tailor’s hem
__________ 98. Making a curved hem (extra fullness)
__________ 99. Making a faced hem
__________ 100. Making a stiffened hem
__________ 101. Making a interfaced hem
__________ 102. Making a narrow rolled hem
__________ 103. Making a horsehair braid hem
__________ 104. Making a wide triple-thick hem
__________ 105. Making a bias rolled hem
__________ 106. Making a double stitched hem
__________ 107. Making a hem in a bulky fabric
__________ 108. Making a tucked hem
__________ 109. Making a hem in a garment with a pleat
__________ 110. Making a hem in a lined garment
__________ 111. Hemming using hem tape, lace, or seam binding
FACINGS
__________ 112. Applying fitted or shaped facings such as armhole, neckline, or
waistline
__________ 113. Hand tacking
__________ 114. Machine tacking
__________ 115. Finishing edges
__________ 116. Notching seam
__________ 117. Clipping seam
Year Skill
Was Learned
FACINGS
__________ 118. Sewing on a shank button
__________ 119. Sewing on a non-shank button
__________ 120. Making fabric buttons
__________ 121. Sewing on a snap
__________ 122. Sewing on an extended snap
__________ 123. Sewing on a hanging snap
__________ 124. Putting on hammer-on snaps
__________ 125. Sewing on a hook and eye or thread eye
__________ 126. Making a machine buttonhole
__________ 127. Making a hand-worked buttonhole
__________ 128. Making a bound buttonhole
__________ 129. Making a fabric button loop
__________ 130. Making a thread loop
__________ 131. Applying Velcro
__________ 132. Other types of closures ____________
COLLARS
__________ 133. Making a flat collar
__________ 134. Making a rolled collar
__________ 135. Making a standing collar
__________ 136. Making a shawl collar
__________ 137. Making a turtleneck collar
__________ 138. Making a tie collar
SLEEVES
__________ 139. Setting in sleeves
__________ 140. Putting in kimono sleeves
__________ 141. Putting in raglan sleeves
__________ 142. Making cuffs
__________ 143. Making plackets
__________ 144. Making gussets
Year Skill
Was Learned
ZIPPERS
__________ 145. Applying a centered zipper
__________ 146. Applying a lapped zipper
__________ 147. Applying a hidden zipper
__________ 148. Applying a hand-stitched zipper
__________ 149. Applying an exposed zipper
__________ 150. Applying a fly-front zipper
__________ 151. Applying a zipper in a flat fell seam
__________ 152. Shortening zippers
__________ 153. Applying a zipper in a garment with a lining
SUPPORTING FABRICS
__________ 154. Applying interfacings – how and where – lapels, collars, cuffs, hems,
waistbands, or belts
__________ 155. Selecting proper interfacings, underlinings, or linings
__________ 156. Using underlinings – how and where
__________ 157. Using linings – how and where
BELTS
__________ 158. Making a tie belt
__________ 159. Making a buckled belt
__________ 160. Making a cord belt
__________ 161. Making a contour belt